Author: MrFloris

If you don’t use managed hosting solutions for your forums, you might have to install everything yourself. By default the directive for AllowOverride is set to None, meaning even if you enable the friendly urls in XenForo, it will show you 404 not found pages. Step 1. If you already have a .htaccess file, get…

Once you have https configured on your server, and you have a MySQL server installed, it might be desirable to install phpmyadmin, this is a php web interface solution to help you manage your mysql databases, users, etc. For security reasons: don’t install it. If you do wish to install it, continue reading, but take…

If you’ve finished setting up your LAMP setup, it’s important to encrypt the traffic over https, we do this with a free solution called Let’s Encrypt. Because why pay unless you’re an Enterprise.. ssh into the server with a user that can sudo up, and type: sudo apt install python-certbot-apache Follow the on-screen instructions. Note:…

Assuming you’ve properly installed Apache2, MySQL, PHP, and read some of the other blogs I’ve written, it’s time to add domains that point to the IP of the server, to the Apache2 as virtual hosts. This makes it easier to add files to load, per domain, even if you have multiple domains on the same…

Assuming you’re going for a LAMP setup, which is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, and have followed some of my other blog posts, we’re at the point where you might find out that PHP isn’t installed on Ubuntu 18 on most hosting solutions. Hopefully this quick guide will get you started. sudo apt install php…

After installing the MySQL server and setting it all up as per this blog post: https://mrfloris.com/article/3288/ubuntu-18-how-to-add-basic-firewall-with-ufw/, it’s time to add a database, and a user to this database. Assuming you’ve followed the previous blog post, connect to the mysql server with the mysql root user as such: mysql -u root -p It will look like…

By default Ubuntu 18 usually has the Apache2 server installed, but the MySQL server might not be there. We will require it for omgboards.com and other websites. So we’re going to install it. ssh to the server, login with a user that can sudo up, and type from the command line: sudo apt install mysql-server…

It should be installed by default on Ubuntu, but some virtualization images etc might not have it. Login with ssh to your server, with a sudo abled user and install ufw sudo apt install ufw Note: It’s important you stay logged in while you sort this out, and that you don’t restart the server, or…

This is a two step howto, and this is how I do it. Do it in this order to avoid issues. Before you begin, make sure you have read the other blog posts, where I explain how to add a super user to the system, and disable root from logging into the ssh service. The…

After your initial setup of your Ubuntu 18 server, and that includes adding a couple of new users, including at least one super user that can sudo up, it’s time to prevent the root user from being able to login on ssh. The username is a default, and doesn’t have to be guessed. Note: Another…

I’ve always preferred using nano over pico, and pico over vi, and vi for very low level file editing. Anyway: nano for most things. But it’s not installed by default on Ubuntu 18. And after getting a new VPS you probably have quite some configuration file editing to do, and in my blog posts I…

Once you’ve ssh into the VPS as a root user, it’s time to add more users to the system. One for the day to day stuff, and one for server management related stuff. The first will be what we consider an unprivileged user, the other sometimes referred to as a sudo user. As user root,…